Politics

The government hit back at the Congress after party president Sonia Gandhi called the suspension of 25 MPs from the Lok Sabha "murder of democracy".

Rabri Devi is a three-time chief minister and ruled the state between 1997 and 2005. She had also contested Lok Sabha polls in 2014 from Saran but lost to BJP's Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Terming the development as a "match fixing", members of the Trinamool Congress walked out of the standing committee meeting on land bill.

Congress on Monday objected to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's statement in the Rajya Sabha saying it was made without notice and urged Chairman Hamid Ansari not to take it on record claiming it was "illegal".

A hurriedly convened all-party meet failed to break the Parliament logjam as the Congress demanded the resignation of BJP leader Sushma Swaraj.

The BJP has called for an all-party meeting to end Parliament deadlock after the Congress chose to skip the meet called last week.

The Union Minister said that some people in the country have an ideology to 'glorify terror, terrorists and extremists'.

The provocation for the snub was the alleged leak by him of his views against the party's stalling tactics in Parliament at a strategy meet of Congress on July 21.

Nitish Kumar said the state government would abide by the Patna High Court order putting an interim ban on use of pictures of chief minister and ministers in the state government's 'Badh Chala Bihar' campaign.

A Janata Dal-U MLA on Tuesday filed a complaint in a court in Bihar's Siwan district charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with hurting the sentiments of the people of the state by questioning the DNA of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday.

Congress on Monday lashed out at Home Minister Rajnath Singh for travelling to Madhya Pradesh while terrorists struck in Punjab and dubbed the incident as a "cocktail of failure" of intelligence, law and order.

Lalu, known for his penchant for the dramatic, arrived at the fast venue at Gandhi Maidan on a tonga, horse drawn carriages that are being used by his party for campaigning for the Assembly polls.

Kickstarting NDA's poll campaign in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday focussed his attack on former BJP ally and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Supreme Court lawyer and former AAP member, Prashant Bhushan has sent a legal notice to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia over the government's alleged "backdoor" regularisation of contractual teachers.

Mincing no words, the Congress leader directed his attack at Prime Minister Modi, accusing him of betraying people who voted for him with trust.

Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been facing repeated disruptions and the houses are unable to keep up scheduled business because of Opposition's uproar in Parliament.